The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-10-28
RELIGIOUS.

/ heart, who first called God our Fatherl
Pity sinners, and endeavor to re-
claim them, rather than aggrayate or
! publish their crimes.
Never forget that the Lord Jesus
knows all you think Of him, say about
him and do for him.
There was never truly original
thought produced by any one but God.
--EeeV. Peter s. Meazies.
] "A Christian ErieVes over sin, because
i displeases God, dishonors the Saw
lor and grieves the Holy Ghost,
Il is great mercy to enjoy the
gospel Of peace, but greater To en-
| icy the peace Of the gospel.--Hanaah
Zee
Il is not disgraeefnl to any one who
is poor to confess his poverty but
the not exerting ones self to escape
poverty is disgFaceful,--Psrioles.
The only doctrinsl truth which
Solomon insisted on, when he took
the whole world for his barren text,
was, that call is yanity.-.Bishop San
dsrsoR.
II may be said that the hardest
thing IN the world is to do Just right
ones self and the easiest thing in
the world is to see where others fall
short Of doing inst rights. s.
Times.
| will tell you what to hate. Hate
Hypocrisy, hate cant, hate intolerance,
oppression, injustice, pharisaism, hate
them as Christ hated them-wIth a
deep, abiding, godlike hatred.-F. W.
Robertson.
To say that a man is thorough
scholar or carpenter, Is to say he is
modest and willing to learn, while the
Distinguishing mark of a quack and
charlatan is bombast and pretenee.-I
Adair Robertson.
Lean on Jesus, and he will rest you.
Labor for Jesus, and he will bless you.
Live for Jesus, and your soul shall |
mount up as on an eaglo's wing yOu |
shall run and never weary, you shall |
walk arm in arm with him and never
faint.
God regards a saint in rags more
than a sinner in robes. The whole of
erumbling tabernacles now occupied |
by his people will soon be leveled with |
the dust; but it matters not, since
Gle hath prepared for them a city,
Jackson.
The man who starts out to do full
days work without partakiDg of nOur
ishing and strengthening food can not
be expected to do that work in the
way it ought to be done and the
probability is he will grow faint be-
fore the sun goes down. There are
hundreds of Christians who start out
daily Oh their work for God Just in
that way, and we see them fainting
and falling long before the time to
"call the laborers and give them their
hire"
To solve the problem whether life
is worth living requires Of us that We
should offer our ''bodies a living sac
rifce, holy acceptable unto God" The
PsaImisc answers, "Y es," with a chime
as sweet as that of siIvery bells when |
he says. 'fTbe righteous shall flourish |
like the palm tree; be shall grow like !
a cedar in Lebanon. Those that he
planted in the house of the Lord shall
flourish in the courts of our God.
They shall still bring forth fruit in
old age ; they shall be fat and -four
Ishing"
Love is mightier than logic. Logic |
builds a stately temple, harmonious,
complete, but it is cruel, heartless,
destructive, rejoicing the soul with as
little conjunction as the architect
feels in throwing aside a stick of tim
Der that be cannot use. Love recog-
nizing the worth of the soul, hastens
to sacrifice its plan; yea itself for it,
and builds grandly out of ruins a liv-
ing temple, fit dwelling-place for God.
Love Is q heart that feels logic is
head that thinks. Logic controls the
intellect love wins the heart. Logic
rejects more than it nses love uses
all things. Logic is mind searching
after God love dwells with God for
"God is love" Therefore "he that
loveth not, knoweth not God. "-Bap-
tist Chronicle.
i CoNoBETEATIoE.- great defect in
both personal and church work Is its
discursiVeness. There is a rowing,
rambling spirit aetuating its move
ments which scatters its energies,
weskens it's momentum and minimizes
its results. 'This one thing / do" of
Paul should be the motto engraVen
upon the heart of every worker for
Christ. Then the eye and heart and
lips will be employed toward the at
tainment Of some object which must
yield before the steady and persistent
efforts put forth for its conquest aud
possession. How little of the earnest,
concentrated spirit of the prayer of
John Knox is displayed in modem
evaBgelistic efots! Oh, for more of
his spirit when be cried ont at the
throne Of grace, "Give me Scotland, or
die i"-Congregatiopal Magazine. !
EaFnestness in religion, such as the
Lord approves, is a longing, not for
popularity or power, but for holiness
and God. lti zeal, not for denomi- |
national triumph over rival churches,
not for predominating influence 10
courts Or camps or parties, butfor the
overthrow Of sin and the salvation of
sinners. "The kingdom Of God is
within you." It is principle binding |
the individual sonl to God It's most
deeply seated and controlling senti-
ment is 'ihuugering and thirsting after
/ righteousness consciousness Of Der.
soaal alienation from God, and an
aEdent desire 10 be eouformed to him.
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